Psychologists drew historically from theories of social Darwinism and eugenics to espouse the hierarchical categorisation of people into race groups.
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Can a Hollywood film re-write one of the oldest and most important stories in the American past?
The history of artisanal training and employment in South Africa has been one of systematic social exclusion and inequality.
Hair has long been modified for aesthetic and other ends. But skewed power structures have meant that women, particularly women of colour, have borne the brunt of stereotyping and prejudice.
When it comes to black hair, “common sense” is the least reliable tool for decision making since even black people are constantly changing their minds about what they want to do with their hair.
Research shows the public has a poor understanding of what slavery is and how often they encounter it. Here’s how to tell if your manicurist is working against their will.
The Baltimore Police Department is found to have violated the civil rights of poor blacks. A historian explains why those findings are eerily similar to how the city treated blacks in the 1800s.
Bob Marley is one of those rare artists who continues to touch the hearts of millions of people across the world, even though he died more than three decades ago.
You won’t see the chains because modern slavery doesn’t work like that.
The broad principle of companies, government bodies and universities divesting from oil, gas and coal companies is sound. But its application needs more sophistication.
The number of people in slavery across the world is on the rise, or maybe researchers are just getting better at counting.
Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.
With Freedom on the Move, historians hope to reveal patterns of escape and capture, while giving anyone the chance to learn about the individual heroism of runaway slaves.
More than 150 years of scholarship and activism hasn’t brought us any closer to consensus.
The announcement that Harriet Tubman will be the first woman on U.S. currency in more than a century recalls the history of female – and African-American – portrayals on money.
Lebanon is host to well over 1m Syrian refugees, and their situation is getting ever more desperate.
Domestic and sexual slavery are being used as weapons of war – and the victims are too often forgotten.
Amnesia won’t help us much in the event of an apocalypse.
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act will push companies to act on forced labour, but Australia needs to follow this lead.
Robert Sobukwe developed the philosophy of African nationalism to even higher intellectual heights. The lesson for humanity was his ideological stand that there is only one race - the human race.
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of History and Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara